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EP1599850B1
EP1599850B1 EP04717154A EP04717154A EP1599850B1 EP 1599850 B1 EP1599850 B1 EP 1599850B1 EP 04717154 A EP04717154 A EP 04717154A EP 04717154 A EP04717154 A EP 04717154A EP 1599850 B1 EP1599850 B1 EP 1599850B1
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Zoe Sturdy
Anthony Tyler
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    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C13/00—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels
    • F17C13/002—Details of vessels or of the filling or discharging of vessels for vessels under pressure
    • F17C13/003—Means for coding or identifying them and/or their contents
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G09—EDUCATION; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISPLAY; ADVERTISING; SEALS
    • G09F—DISPLAYING; ADVERTISING; SIGNS; LABELS OR NAME-PLATES; SEALS
    • G09F3/00—Labels, tag tickets, or similar identification or indication means; Seals; Postage or like stamps
    • G09F3/02—Forms or constructions
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/01—Shape
    • F17C2201/0104—Shape cylindrical
    • F17C2201/0109—Shape cylindrical with exteriorly curved end-piece
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/03—Orientation
    • F17C2201/032—Orientation with substantially vertical main axis
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2201/00—Vessel construction, in particular geometry, arrangement or size
    • F17C2201/05—Size
    • F17C2201/058—Size portable (<30 l)
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
    • F17C2205/01—Mounting arrangements
    • F17C2205/0153—Details of mounting arrangements
    • F17C2205/0157—Details of mounting arrangements for transport
    • F17C2205/0165—Details of mounting arrangements for transport with handgrip
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
    • F17C2205/03—Fluid connections, filters, valves, closure means or other attachments
    • F17C2205/0302—Fittings, valves, filters, or components in connection with the gas storage device
    • F17C2205/0323—Valves
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2205/00—Vessel construction, in particular mounting arrangements, attachments or identifications means
    • F17C2205/05—Vessel or content identifications, e.g. labels
    • F17C2205/054—Vessel or content identifications, e.g. labels by bar codes
    • F—MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; LIGHTING; HEATING; WEAPONS; BLASTING
    • F17—STORING OR DISTRIBUTING GASES OR LIQUIDS
    • F17C—VESSELS FOR CONTAINING OR STORING COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED OR SOLIDIFIED GASES; FIXED-CAPACITY GAS-HOLDERS; FILLING VESSELS WITH, OR DISCHARGING FROM VESSELS, COMPRESSED, LIQUEFIED, OR SOLIDIFIED GASES
    • F17C2270/00—Applications
    • F17C2270/07—Applications for household use
    • F17C2270/0745—Gas bottles

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  • This invention relates to a label for a container of fluid under pressure.
  • Gases and volatile liquids are commonly stored under pressure, sometimes as high as 300 bar, in containers, typically cylindrical in shape, known as gas cylinders.
  • a gas cylinder has a valve at its head through which its contents can be discharged.
  • gas cylinder It is desirable to ensure that a user of a gas cylinder has certain information readily available concerning the contents of the gas cylinder. It is also desirable that the gas cylinder carries information which is of use in the management of a large stock of cylinders.
  • US-A-5 555 655 discloses a neck ring which fits around the neck of a gas cylinder above a collar.
  • a plurality of tags are hinged to the neck ring.
  • the tags are provided with information-bearing labels.
  • the neck ring has a plurality of flexible fingers which extend radially inwards and enage with threads on the cylinder neck so as to hold the neck ring securely in position.
  • GB-A- 2 245 881 discloses a collar adapted to fit around the neck of a beer keg.
  • the collar has an annular position and a depending planar portion.
  • US-A-1 796 398 discloses a dose indicator (for a medicine bottle) which comprises an annular collar and a flat portion connected to the collar be a reduced neck portion.
  • the invention particularly relates to a novel form of label aimed at combating the problems described above.
  • a label attachable to a cylinder containing fluid under pressure comprising a generally annular plastics collar able to be fastened around the cylinder valve, and a bib integral with the collar, wherein the label has moulded into it at least one information-bearing member, the bib has a configuration such that when the collar is in position around the cylinder valve the bib can extend over a part of the neck of the cylinder without the bib's sides protruding from the plane of the cylinder, characterised in that the collar has a radial split and a fastening member which in its fastening position extends from a point of engagement on one side of the radial split to a point of engagement on the other side of the radial split.
  • the information-bearing member s preferably carried by the bib.
  • the information-bearing member preferably includes a bar code. If two bar codes are employed, one can be carried by the bib and the other by the collar.
  • the fastening is typically of a kind which does not readily permit accidental unfastening.
  • the label preferably has a straight linear fold between the collar and the bib.
  • Such an arrangement makes it possible for the label to be made as a flat moulded article and then for the bib to be urged downwards into position over the neck of the cylinder.
  • the information-bearing member carried by the bib preferably contains printed indicia in addition to the bar code or bar codes. If desired, the collar may also carry an information-bearing member with a bar code and/or printed indicia.
  • the bib is preferably trapezoidal in shape, having upper and lower parallel sides in its position over the neck of the cylinder.
  • the trapezoidal shape maximises the surface area of the bib available for carrying information.
  • the cylinder typically has a guard protecting the cylinder valve. In position around the valve the collar of the label is surrounded by the guard and the bib extends through an opening in the guard.
  • a label collar 2 comprises a thin, flat, generally annular, disc-shaped collar 4 of plastics material.
  • Polyurethane is one suitable plastics material from which the label 2 can be formed, for example, by injection moulding.
  • the label 2 has a trapezoidal bib 6 integral with the collar 4.
  • the bib 6 forms the front of the label 2.
  • the label 2 has a straight linear fold 8 between the collar 4 and the bib 6.
  • the fold 8 has a reduced thickness in comparison with the collar 4 and the bib 6.
  • the collar is formed with a radial split 10. This split and the natural flexibility of the plastics material enables the label 2 to be readily fitted around the stem of a cylinder valve.
  • the collar 4 has a fastening member 12 in the form of a strip typically of the same plastics material as the rest of the label 2.
  • the fastening member has a pair of studs 14 which are adapted to engage complementary sockets 16 formed at two points in the collar 4, one on one side of , and the other on the other side of the radial split 10.
  • Each stud 14 has a shank 18 terminating in a prong 20 tapering in the direction of its complementary socket 16.
  • the prong 20 is at its wider end of greater diameter than the shank 18.
  • both the collar 4 and the bib 6 carry printed indicia 22 conveying information about the contents of a cylinder 30 to which the label 2 is fitted and the contents of the cylinder 30.
  • the collar 4 carries a bar code 24 and the bib 6 a bar code 26.
  • One of the bar codes 24 and 26 contains information about the fluid contained in the cylinder 30.
  • the other of the bar codes 24 and 26 contains the serial number of the cylinder 30.
  • the bar codes 24 and 26 are carried on individual members (not shown) of the same plastics material as the rest of the label 2 which are moulded into the label 2 during its manufacture. During the moulding process, the bar code carrying members merge with the rest of the label 2 and therefore in the finished product no joins therebetween can be detected by unaided visual inspection. Lettering and other indicia can be applied by a printing process after the label 2 with its bar codes 24 and 26 has been made or can be applied to a plastics member which is moulded into the label at the same time as the bar codes.
  • the plastics material from which the label 2 is made is preferably white so as to make lettering in black or of a dark colour stand out prominently and thus be easy to read.
  • the cylinder 30 has a valve 32.
  • the collar 4 of the label 2 fits around the stem of the valve 2.
  • the neck 34 of the cylinder 30 has an upstanding valve guard 36 which is open at its front to permit ready manual access to the valve 32.
  • the bib 6 of the label 2 extends through the front of the valve guard 36. Although the shorter one of the two parallel ends of the trapezoidal bib 6 is not as wide as the guard 36, the longer one is wider than this guard 36. Nonetheless, as shown in Figure 2 , the bib 6 dose not protrude at its sides from the plane of the cylinder 30 as the label is thus unlikely to be damaged by impact with another object for example another cylinder during handling of a stock of cylinders.
  • the bib 6 is in a position in which it has been bent downwards from the fold 8 over a part the neck 34 of the cylinder.
  • the label 2 thus provides a means of individually identifying the cylinder over an indefinite period of time.
  • the label according to the invention may be used to identify a cylinder containing any industrial gas or volatile liquid under pressure. It is of particular utility if the fluid is toxic or otherwise hazardous or if it potentially has adverse effects on the environment or in the earth's atmosphere, for example if it is a fluorinated hydrocarbon.
  • the label may rest on or around this portion when fitted to the cylinder.

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Claims (9)

  1. Etikett (2), das an einem druckbeaufschlagtes Fluid enthaltenden Zylinder (30) befestigt werden kann, mit einer allgemein ringförmigen Kunststoffmanschette (4), die um das Zylinderventil (32) herum angebracht werden kann, und einem integral mit der Manschette (4) ausgebildeten Latz (6), wobei in dem Etikett (2) mindestens ein Informationstrageglied (24, 26) geformt worden ist, wobei der Latz (6) eine solche Konfiguration aufweist, dass sich der Latz (6) über einen Teil des Halses (34) des Zylinders (30) erstrecken kann, ohne dass die Seite des Latzes (6) von der Ebene des Zylinders (30) vorragt, wenn sich die Manschette (4) in Position um das Zylinderventil (32) herum befindet,
    dadurch gekennzeichnet, dass die Manschette (4) einen radialen Spalt (10) und ein Befestigungsglied (12) aufweist, das sich in seiner Befestigungsposition von einer Eingriffsstelle (16) auf einer Seite des radialen Spalts (10) zu einer Eingriffsstelle (16) auf der anderen Seite des radialen Spalts (10) erstreckt.
  2. Etikett nach Anspruch 1, wobei das Informationstrageglied von dem Latz getragen wird.
  3. Etikett nach Anspruch 1 oder 2, wobei das Informationstrageglied einen Strichcode enthält.
  4. Etikett nach Anspruch 3, wobei zwei Strichcodes vorgesehen sind, einer auf dem Latz und einer auf der Manschette.
  5. Etikett nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei das Etikett einen geraden linearen Falz (8) zwischen der Manschette (4) und dem Latz (6) aufweist.
  6. Etikett nach Anspruch 3, wobei das Informationstrageglied neben dem Strichcode gedruckte Angaben trägt.
  7. Etikett nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche, wobei der Latz (6) eine Trapezform aufweist, die eine Ober- und eine Unterseite aufweist, wenn er sich in einer Position über dem Hals (34) des Zylinders befindet.
  8. Ein druckbeaufschlagtes Fluid enthaltender Zylinder, wobei der Zylinder mit einem Etikett nach einem der vorhergehenden Ansprüche ausgestattet ist.
  9. Zylinder nach Anspruch 8, wobei der Zylinder einen Schutz (36) aufweist, der das Zylinderventil (32) schützt, wobei die Manschette (4) des Etiketts (2) von dem Schutz (36) umgegeben wird und sich der Latz (6) durch eine Öffnung im Schutz erstreckt.
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GBGB0304902.0A GB0304902D0 (en) 2003-03-04 2003-03-04 Label
GB0304902 2003-03-04
PCT/GB2004/000922 WO2004079696A1 (en) 2003-03-04 2004-03-04 Label

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FR2949730B1 (fr) * 2009-09-09 2011-08-26 Peugeot Citroen Automobiles Sa Element de garniture ou de carrosserie pour vehicule et procede de referencement d'un tel element.
FR3049679B1 (fr) * 2016-04-01 2018-08-10 L'air Liquide, Societe Anonyme Pour L'etude Et L'exploitation Des Procedes Georges Claude Bague support d’informations pour robinet de recipient de gaz

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US1796398A (en) * 1929-05-27 1931-03-17 Hugh H Richardson Dose indicator and advertising device
GB2245881B (en) * 1990-06-12 1994-03-23 John Robert Wall Collars for containers
US5249380A (en) * 1991-08-28 1993-10-05 Jacob Fast Identification tag holder for gas cylinder
US5555655A (en) * 1994-09-26 1996-09-17 Aga Ab Identification device for a container

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